^Lot 588 Christopher Isherwood

Souvenir typescript, 8.5 x 11, featuring an excerpt from Isherwood’s book, The Berlin Stories, in part: “The tiny flame of the lighter flickered between us, as perishable as the atmosphere which our exaggerated politeness had created. The merest breath would have extinguished the one, the least incautious gesture or word would have destroyed the other. The cigarettes were both lighted now.” Signed and inscribed at the conclusion in black ballpoint, “For Earl, from Chris Isherwood, October 8, 1980.” In fine condition, with light creasing and a trivial spot of toning.